Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 740 Misfortune comes from Xiao Qiang and changes in the situation
Jingzhao, Chang'an Mansion.

Just the day before Pei Yuan was assassinated, Ziting Bo Cao Renzun's mansion.

Even though it was late at night, the Cao Mansion was brightly lit, and the servants in short-sleeve outfits kept bringing up delicious food from all over the place, and there were drums playing in the arena, making it very lively.

Although cities like Jingzhao Chang'an Mansion have basically imposed a curfew since Zhang Ting led the troops out of the fortress, it did not affect people like Cao Renzun.

Today is his 60th birthday, not only can he not abide by the curfew regulations, but even Cao Yuanzhong, the governor of Pingzhang of Guanzhong Province, the left-behind of Jingzhao Mansion, and the Duke of Qiao, will come to celebrate his birthday in person after his invitation.

The reason is simple, Cao Yuanzhong's father, Cao Yijin, was called Cao Rengui before he became the Jiedushi of the Guiyi Army.

This benevolent generation is the previous generation of the Cao family, that is to say, Cao Renzun is Cao Yuanzhong's uncle.

And it's not just as simple as uncle, the Cao family in Shazhou actually retreated to Shazhou to settle after Tubo captured Liangzhou.

At that time, the Cao family was not the only one who evacuated from Liangzhou. It is conservatively estimated that there were 30 to 4 people, but in the end they managed to reach Shazhou, and only [-] to [-] people were stabilized.

In this horrible attrition of nearly [-]%, the Cao family was able to finally obtain a stable place to stay, because they have settled down in Shazhou for a long time, and they still have some business routes in their hands.

The Han people who called themselves Qiaojun Cao hoped to rely on Sogdian Xicao's power and territory in Shazhou to survive.

Sogdian Xicao hoped that through this joint clan, he could completely get rid of his identity as a Sogdian, and become a Tang or even Haner who was considered "noble" at that time.

Of course, the biggest advantage is that after the two clans merged, the population has reached two to 3000 people, and they have become quite influential families in Shazhou.

However, after Hezong, under the influence of Han people's tradition of not marrying with the same surname, Qiaojun Cao from Liangzhou and the local Sogdian Xicao did not carry out large-scale marriages.

This led to the fact that they were not very close in the decades after the co-zong. On the contrary, because of the influx of a large number of Han Chinese from Shazhou, which was already very difficult, the living environment was harsh and they competed with each other.

This situation did not change until Cao Yijin began to rise.

One is that Cao Yijin's grandmother and mother were both Sogdians, and they were born to be close to Sogdian Xicao.

The second is that Cao Yijin is really capable. As a small school, he was able to marry the daughter of Suo Xun, the Jiedu envoy of the Guiyi Army at that time, and his future seemed very bright.

So from then on, the two Cao clans began to merge rapidly. When Cao Yijin won the power of the Guiyi Army, the Cao clan was already the largest family among the Han people in the Guiyi Army.

In particular, Cao Yijin, like Sun Quan, has a beautiful purple beard, which obviously has the characteristics of Sogdian people. In this way, no one dares to say that Sogdian Xicao is not a member of Shazhou Cao, not a member of Han people up.

However, this small faction in the Cao family has not been completely eliminated. Therefore, although Cao Yuanzhong is the patriarch of Shazhou Cao in name, in some respects, as an elder of Sogter Xicao, Cao Renzun still controls the clan. Great voice.

In particular, Cao Renzun can even be said to be an elder of the Cao family in Shazhou, because until now, Cao Renzun is the only person in Cao Jiaren's generation.

Just as Zhang Ting must respect, at least superficially, Zhang Huaiqing, the only surviving descendant of the Zhang family, Cao Yuanzhong still needs to lower his stance when facing Cao Renzun.

For example, Cao Yuanzhong has issued a curfew himself, but he still has to come to Cao Renzun's birthday dinner.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Cao Renzun walked to Cao Yuanzhong's table with a long golden cup with copper tire pattern. Cao Yuanzhong stood up quickly, still speaking politely.

"Today is my uncle's birthday, how dare my nephew ask my uncle to treat me to a drink."

Cao Renzun seemed a little drunk. He looked at Cao Yuanzhong who came over respectfully, and he shook his big head with squinted eyes after a while.

"I am able to hold a birthday banquet in Chang'an today, with such a large house and so many servants, all thanks to you!"

Cao Yuanzhong didn't know what was going on, he felt a little uneasy all of a sudden, he didn't drink but just looked at Cao Renzun and said.

"Uncle praised me absurdly. My nephew is mediocre and dull. How could the Cao family get to this point? All of this is the grace of the saint."

Seeing that Cao Yuanzhong wasn't drinking, Cao Renzun laughed aloud, then turned to look at the Cao family members in the banquet and laughed.

"The sage is of course a hero, but he can't take down this country alone!

This belongs to the family business of the rebel army, but our Cao family, without the strong support of these surnames Cao, the saint was able to enter Guanzhong so quickly. "

Cao Yuanzhong's face suddenly changed, and he turned around and put down the wine glass, "Uncle be careful, my Cao family only got the present glory and wealth by being attached to the saint's tail. With or without the Cao family, the saint can determine the Central Plains."

"Look, look." Cao Renzun greeted a servant and handed the wine glass to the servant.

And the drum music in the arena also stopped. A group of Cao family members and some veterans who were invited by Cao Renzun, such as members of the Yin and Chen families, all looked at Cao Renzun and Uncle Cao Yuanzhong in silence. nephew.

"This child has been so sincere since he was a child. The sage went west to Khotan, and the Cao family gave us three thousand guan as the foundation, right? This is three thousand guan!

Among the 77 generals of Yuan Cong, [-] of them were given by our Cao family. Qu Wulang, Luo Yuer, Luo Fengma and others are such sharp soldiers in Jiedu that they give away all their armor and weapons for free. of.

King Khotan of the Jin Kingdom is not only the uncle of the sage, but also the uncle of my Cao family.

When he returned to Dunhuang, King Ling Gong gave all that should be given to Yuan De to Zhang Erlang.

Tell me, among these four things, which one is not a great contribution? Why is it that Zhang Erlang gave the Cao family's current wealth? "

Cao Yuanzhong's eyes widened fiercely, as if he didn't recognize him, he looked straight at Cao Renzun in front of him.

After being stunned for a while, Cao Yuanzhong stretched out his hand tremblingly, pointing at this uncle whom he respected quite originally.

He, Cao Renzun, even called Zhang Erlang, what is he doing?
"Cao Renzun, have you lost your mind and gone crazy? When outsiders heard it, they thought the Cao family was resentful?

Although our Cao family has indeed made great achievements, we now have a queen and two concubines. There are as many as seven grandchildren of the Cao family's prince and princess, and the future prince will definitely be the grandson of the Cao family.

Isn't this status enough?What are you talking about here? "

Cao Renzun looked at Cao Yuanzhong and snorted coldly, "Indeed, one empress and two concubines are indeed beautiful.

But those are all your Cao Yuanzhong's daughters, but you are the hereditary Duke of the state, you enter the court as the prime minister, and go out as the governor, and your son is even more beautiful.

But what about everyone else?Elders like this old man have only one earl who cannot be hereditary, just like sending off beggars. How many other Cao family children are in high positions?
It's fine if our Cao family's children are incapable, but even if we are capable, you Cao Yuanzhong stopped us from being a high-ranking official.

Then who is Pei Yuan?A vicious person who can only talk, how can he be left behind in Xijing, and now he is almost in charge of the government, why? "

As soon as Cao Renzun said these words, the buzzing sound immediately rang out, because Cao Renzun's words cannot be said to be all wrong.

In the minds of the Cao family's children, Zhang Ting's rise was indeed as Cao Renzun said, no matter in terms of people, wealth or status, the Cao family gave extremely important help.

But now, although the Cao family has one empress and two concubines, both of them are Cao Yuanzhong's daughters.

The virtuous concubine who was named Cao Yanmian (Queen Saktu) by Cao Yuanxin also worshiped Cao Yuanzhong as her father, and was actually Cao Yuanzhong's daughter.

The Cao Yuanzhong, Cao Yanlu and his sons are certainly famous, but compared to them, the benefits obtained by the other children of the Cao family are relatively limited.

In the eyes of many extreme people, Cao Yuanzhong must have colluded with the two sons-in-law before Zhang Ting returned from Khotan, and Cao Yuanzhong betrayed the Cao family to get such benefits.

Cao Yuanzhong only felt a chill all over his body, and he felt all kinds of grievances, but he couldn't speak them out.

Because the Cao family is already so powerful in the harem, it is bound to restrain themselves a little in the outer court.

Otherwise, with the number of tens of thousands of Cao family's children, if all of them share the benefits, it will not take many years to form an extremely large group of relatives, similar to the Huo Guang family in the early Han Dynasty and the Liangji family in the later Han Dynasty.

This is absolutely intolerable to the emperor, and it is also the biggest reason why the emperor elevated Cao's daughter to such a status in the harem.

That means, among the concubines, the highest-ranking queen is the daughter of the Cao family, and among the noble, virtuous, virtuous, and three concubines, two are daughters of the Cao family. If you have given you the beauty of the harem, don't think about being in court outside. Take power.

It was only after Cao Yuanzhong knew the emperor's thoughts clearly that he kept a low profile. Whenever a son of the Cao family wanted to be sent to a high position, he would stop him.

If the emperor insists on promotion, then listen to the emperor, but the emperor generally agrees with Cao Yuanzhong's opinion.

Uh, if it looks like this, it is indeed a bit hateful!
Cao Yuanzhong knew that it would be useless to explain more at this time, and he also felt that something was wrong.

In the blink of an eye, he put his hands behind his back and gestured to his nephew Cao Yanshun, who served as his personal school lieutenant, and he began to back away slowly, intending to distance himself from Cao Renzun.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he moved, Cao Renzun jumped over and grabbed Cao Yuanzhong's sleeve directly.

"Sanlang, now the situation of the saint Beishou is unknown, Pei Yuan, Feng Dao and other treacherous officials in the court hall have committed many evils, arousing the people's indignation, and even Sanniang was forced to retreat to Shendu to protect himself.

You are the head of the current dynasty and the head of my Cao family, why don't you raise your arms and take the Cao family and other old Guiyi army children out of Tongguan to the Qing Dynasty! "

Cao Yuanzhong felt a chill in his heart, and the most terrifying situation happened. He waved his hand violently, and directly got rid of Cao Renzun's grasp.

Then he kicked the old man on the ground and turned somersaults on the ground, and ran towards the door.

There was a clear sound of 'choke', and a horizontal knife was thrown across the way of Cao Yuanzhong's escape.

A brawny man wearing a ring armor in his outer robe, with fresh blood on his face, body, and blade, stopped Cao Yuanzhong.

"21 Lang, you... how can you get involved with them, why?"

Cao Yuanzhong looked at the person who blocked him, and he was immediately stupid, no, he should have broken the defense directly.

Because this Cao 21 Lang, Cao Yancun, is a very capable existence in Cao Jiayan's generation, and he is Yunwen Yunwu.

Cao Yuanzhong also valued him the most, and felt that he was the most likely to become the pillar of the Cao family in the court after five years or ten years.

After Cao Yancun stopped Cao Yuanzhong, he didn't do anything to him, but stared at Cao Yuanzhong with red eyes.

"Third Uncle still asks why? So, I want to ask Third Uncle, outsiders like Cui Huxin, Du Chixin, and Guo Rong can go out to be the commander-in-chief, why can't Cao 21 be the commander-in-chief?
In the conquest of Ma Chu and Shu, a certain person fought desperately. When he was in Mianzhou, such a prosperous city did not take a certain money, why did the third uncle block his way of ascent? "

The term "fushuai" is the folk name for a governor who has added military and horse supervisors. For example, the governor of Datong who is Zhe Deyuan and the military and horse supervisor of Datong Prefecture is called Fushuai by the people.

Cao Yuanzhong retreated a few steps in despair, and suddenly fell on a chair, losing all strength for a moment.

Even Cao Yancun's core members of the Cao family were involved, but he didn't know it at all. Obviously, it had been planned for a long time, and the Cao family was about to end.

"You killed Yanshun?" Cao Yuanzhong asked in pain.

A look of guilt flashed in Cao Yancun's red eyes, which were burned by desire, but it disappeared soon.

"No matter what XX says, he doesn't listen, he can only do it, the sword has no eyes."

Cao Yuanzhong looked at Cao Yancun, nodded sadly with a sad smile, "The sage said, you Cao Yancun looks selfless, but in fact you are too selfish and have excess desires, so you can't suddenly let go of important tasks, you need to be honed and honed before you can be a pillar.

This is a high opinion of you!Who would have thought that you are actually a fool whose mind is blinded by selfish desires.

Now that the country's elite are in the hands of saints, how dare you rebel?There is no need for saints at all, only Xinchanger and Cunhuier are needed, and you just wait to be chopped into minced meat. "

When Cao Yuanzhong mentioned Murong Nobunaga, Cao Yancun was furious, because Murong Nobunaga was also Cao Yuande's grandson.

"All the benefits have been taken away by your third house, and our other houses have to look at your color even to be the commander-in-chief, so you have the nerve to say so.

snort!I might as well tell you that the sage can't come back, and there's more than one Zubhao Chieftain Dusage waiting for him on the grassland! "

"You son of a bitch! It turns out that you have a heart of rebellion long ago, and you dare to lie to others. The saint is a hero, and you expect a group of prairie barbarians to trap the saint. Dream!" Cao Yuanzhong yelled.

Before Cao Yancun could refute, Cao Renzun, who got up, suddenly stopped him, "Stop arguing with him."

Then Cao Renzun looked at Cao Yuanzhong, "Cao Sanlang, I will ask you one last question, would you like to go to the capital of God with me?"

They were not ordinary rioters, they seemed to want to control the eighth prince Xianzai who was brought to the capital by his third daughter, and there should be someone to support him in the capital.

But in this way, he must be safe, Cao Yuanzhong took a big breath, his strength suddenly recovered, he waved at Cao Renzun.

Cao Renzun was overjoyed, thinking that Cao Yuanzhong was a little moved, so he ran over quickly.

As a result, Cao Yuanzhong stood up abruptly, grabbed his collar, and "papapa" was three big pussies.

This Cao Renzun was originally short, while Cao Yuanzhong was tall and strong, the two were still four or five years apart, and Cao Yuanzhong was even more furious.

This time, the three big dicks beat Cao Renzun until he was dizzy, bleeding from his mouth and nose, and almost passed out.

Cao Renzun let out a scream, angrily, he took out the dagger from his arms, and was about to prick Cao Yuanzhong, but Cao Yancun, who was next to him, had sharp eyesight and quick hands, and immediately grabbed Cao Renzun's hand holding the dagger.

"Uncle, it's important to do big things, we can't kill him yet."

Cao Renzun's expression changed a few times, and he withdrew his hand in resentment. At this moment, there was also a loud shout of killing outside. Presumably, it was the guards of Cao Renzun's mansion who began to attack Cao Yuanzhong's guards in the outer courtyard.

During the banquet in the house, there were more than a dozen Cao family children who wanted to rebel with tables, chairs and benches. They also did not want to rebel with Cao Renzun and others.

Cao Yuanzhong looked over with relief, and those who refused to follow the rebellion were almost all the best among the Cao family's children. Although the most outstanding Cao Yancun became a rebel, the others still withstood the test.

"Put down the tables and chairs. There will not be many people in the Cao family in the future. We can't all die here. Let's save our lives to see how they are destroyed."

After finishing speaking, Cao Yuanzhong looked at Cao Yancun, "Cao 21, you don't want to kill us all, do you?"

Cao Yancun arched his hand, "Today is forced by the situation. In the future, when the power of the Cao family is all over the world, the third uncle will know how well-intentioned my nephew is today. As long as the blood relatives don't resist anymore, I, Cao 21, will not do any harm."

Hearing what Cao Yancun said, under Cao Yuanzhong's comfort, the Cao family's children who were about to resist also put down their tables, chairs and benches.

Holding this thing, there is no way to resist Jia, Cao Yancun and others who are holding sharp knives.

. . . .

Chang'an's defense strength is actually not very good, and he is completely sorry for the name of Jingzhao Chang'an Mansion.

There was no way around it. Zhang Zhou's implementation of the policy of elite soldiers was doomed to impossibility to hoard a large number of troops in every city.Especially Chang'an Prefecture, a city that will not be threatened at all.

In addition, when Meng Shu was conquered last time, a large number of troops were dispatched from Guanzhong. After the successful defeat of Shu, less than [-]% of them came back.

At the same time, when Zhang Tie went to Liangzhou, he took away all the more than [-] soldiers from Jinchang Town who were stationed in Chang'an.

This has led to the fact that the main force of the Jingzhao Chang'an Mansion's current army is the Weisuo Army, that is, the Chang'an Sanwei.

And even the three guards are not full yet, the elite of them are still guarding in the middle of Shu, and not all the three guards are in Chang'an Mansion, some of them have to be allocated to garrison Fengxiang Mansion and Binzhou Mansion respectively.

Therefore, the defensive force in Chang'an City is only more than 800 people, and a part of the patrol chief conscription is temporarily recruited, which adds up to 500 people.

What's even more frightening is that Cao Yancun, the military supervisor of Jingzhao Chang'an Mansion who controls the three guards of Chang'an, is Cao Yancun.

After imprisoning Cao Yuanzhong and others in an underground secret room, Cao Yancun immediately entered the barracks as a military supervisor and ordered the soldiers of the three guards to gather quickly and prepare to go to Tongguan to change defense.

Although Cao Yancun did not concurrently serve as the defense envoy of Guanzhong Province Cao Yuanzhong's personal dispatch order, but he got the seal of Cao Yuanzhong's defense envoy.

Although the commander of the three guards under his command felt that the order to go to Tongguan to change defense suddenly was a bit unreasonable, he did not expect that Cao Yancun, who was a member of the Cao family and had a bright future, would become a traitor.

So after a moment of hesitation, he went to straighten out the team and set off.

The reason why Cao Yancun was going to Tongguan was because the military supervisor of Weinan Prefecture, the envoy of Tongguan Town, the chief soldier of Changguo Town, and Luo Yuer, the Duke of Qingyang County, who were guarding Tongguan, had already been persuaded by Cao Renzun.

After Luo Yu'er's original spouse died of illness, she continued to marry Cao Yuande's daughter, Cao Siniang Yanying, and Cao Yanying's third uncle, Suo Sanlang, also participated in Cao Renzun's rebellion.

Half a month ago, he tricked Cao Yanying to Chang'an Mansion on the grounds that Cao Yanying's grandmother was seriously ill, and was immediately placed under house arrest by Suo Sanlang.

Then Cao Renzun took Cao Yanying and the six children as hostages, and finally "persuaded" Luo Yuer to join their plan.

There are currently 9000 troops guarding Tongguan, 4000 of which are 4000 from Changguo Town, the Forbidden Army commanded by Luo Yuer, and most of the remaining 5000 are from the original Shu army.

They seemed to be sent to Tongguan for defense, but in fact they were doing the task of building Tongguan fortress and repairing canals during the dry season. Their lives were very hard, and they should be easily incited.

Moreover, those who participated in the conspiracy of Cao Renzun and others, there are also a large number of frustrated former ministers in Shu who miss Meng Chang. With them, it is more certain to recruit these former Shu troops.

If the plan goes well, Cao Yancun has a smile on his lips. As long as he reaches Tongguan, his Chang'an Sanwei Ding will find something wrong, but there is no way out.

Because they followed him and walked from Chang'an to Tongguan without orders, which was already a capital offense.

Soldiers may not be too serious, but officers are absolutely finished. At that time, as long as they spend a lot of money, coax, deceive and lure them, it will not be difficult to control.

In this way, he has fifteen thousand troops in his hands, and the gods have internal support.

After controlling Cao Yannai and Zhang Xianzai, he spread the word to the world, saying that the queen and his son Zhang Xianjing had been murdered by Pei Yuan, and that Cao Yancun came to the side of the Qing emperor.

With Pei Yuan's way of making people angry and complaining today, is there still a big problem?
(End of this chapter)